Tory donor who gave Boris Johnson £500,000 urges public to vote Labour | General election 2024
A Conservative donor who gave £500,000 to Boris Johnson’s election campaign in 2019 has announced he will vote Labour in next month’s general election. John Caldwell, founder of mobile phone retailer Phones4U, made the announcement on Tuesday night and was first reported by The Times and the BBC. Labour said this follows recent talks between […]
Labour says it would let NHS in England buy more social care beds | NHS
Under Labour’s plans, NHS money would be used to buy thousands of care home beds in a bid to reduce overcrowding in England’s hospitals, long waiting times in emergency departments and patients stuck in ambulances. Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting said the measures would tackle the huge human and financial “waste” caused by beds being […]
Labour Party leader vows end to UK politics defined by ‘gestures and gimmicks’
The centre-left politician, who seeks to become British prime minister in three weeks, said on Thursday he would lead a government that was “pro-business and pro-worker” and would restore stability after years of economic and political turmoil. Labour leader Keir Starmer said that if elected on July 4, he would end a “desperate era of […]
Labour takes on the SNP in Scotland – podcast | News
“A really typical doorstep rescue is someone saying, ‘I’m totally fed up with this. Is there anything I can do to get them out?’” Kirsty McNeillThe Labour candidate for Midlothian told the Guardian’s Scotland correspondent: Libby Brooks. “Then I have to ask: ‘Are you talking about the people over there or the people over there?’ […]
Labour might be a racing certainty, but it faces some big hurdles in government | William Keegan
ohOn the day before the 1992 general election, the bookmakers in Ascot were offering odds of 6 to 1 on John Major’s Conservative Party to win. I was with the economist Roger Bootle, and we agreed that Labour, with a large lead in the opinion polls, was bound to win. Even at those odds, there […]
General election live: Tories challenge Labour to join them in ruling out council tax reform | Politics
Diane Abbott says she intends to ‘run and win’ as Labour candidate | Labour
Diane Abbott says she intends to “run and win” as the Labour candidate in the constituency she has represented for 37 years, amid reports that the Labour party will offer peerages to outgoing MPs. The veteran Labour MP said he had never been offered a seat in the House of Lords and would not accept […]
EU keen to deepen ties with a Labour PM but will not offer radical concessions | General election 2024
Since 2016, Britain’s Conservative party has likened the European Union to Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, called comments from EU officials “bizarre and stupid,” and warned that unilaterally rewriting the Brexit agreement would violate international law, so the new Labour government won’t need to do much to strike a different tone. But while the […]
Diane Abbott says she has been banned from standing for Labour at election | Diane Abbott
Diane Abbott has confirmed she has been barred from standing as a Labour MP at the next election, bringing to an end a nearly 40-year career as one of the party’s most prominent politicians. The MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington released a statement to broadcasters on Wednesday morning confirming that he had been […]
Labour criticises Rishi Sunak’s national service plan as ‘unfunded’ – UK politics live | Politics
cleverly told Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg No one will be “forced” to do military national service and can instead join the civilian component. These could include a range of things, such as special constables, on-call firefighters, emergency medical responders and unified public services such as environmental protection, he said. He insisted that sufficient funding was […]